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CULTURE / Music
Dec 2, 2005

The Roots: "Home Grown! The Beginner's Guide to Understanding The Roots, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2"

Over the last 13 years, The Roots have accomplished something few urban acts have -- making loyal fans of people who don't listen to hip hop. Using live instrumentation to craft their organic groove-based anthems, the Philadelphia crew has won over lovers of rock, blues, jazz and pop without losing the...
JAPAN
Dec 2, 2005

Capital looks to pool trillions in bid to woo 2016 Olympics

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government may establish a pool of several trillion yen to be used in case the city is picked to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, metro officials said Thursday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Dec 2, 2005

Gordon Ramsay at Conrad Tokyo: Haute cuisine with altitude

Aside from some road-laying and cosmetic work, the bristling high-rises of the Shiodome complex are complete. It's a brutal, soulless landscape on an inhuman scale. There's only one thing that can tempt us along those sterile walkways and mazelike underpasses: the promise of fine dining. And no one does...
BUSINESS
Dec 2, 2005

Government nudging BOJ to introduce inflation target

The Cabinet Office on Thursday effectively called on the Bank of Japan to introduce an inflation target if it terminates its quantitative monetary easing policy.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Dec 2, 2005

Electronica maestro takes to the stars

Despite a limited recorded output that has seen him release only two albums in the last five years, electronica musician Rei Harakami is a producer and remixer in demand. The Kyoto-based musician, whose largely instrumental music incorporates jazz and techno, has taken on a variety of collaborative projects...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 2, 2005

Engineers, pop singers feted at Innovator Awards

Painless syringes, therapeutic planetariums, cards embedded with IC chips that allow cashless payments, and a singing duo who inspired a U.S. cartoon were among the products and people winning honors Wednesday for innovation.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / THE SECOND ROOM
Dec 2, 2005

Psychedelic radar 12.02

Saturday, Dec. 3
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Dec 1, 2005

Fighters' Iriki garners no suitors

Nippon Ham Fighters pitcher Yusaku Iriki had his hopes of pursuing a career in the major leagues dashed Wednesday after failing to draw a bid via the so-called posting system.
EDITORIALS
Dec 1, 2005

Time to allow a female emperor

A government panel on imperial succession has issued a final proposal to revise the Imperial Household Law. It contains two main points. One is that females and their descendants should be allowed to ascend the Chrysanthemum Throne. The second is that the emperor's firstborn child, regardless of gender,...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 1, 2005

Host communities blast U.S. realignment plan

Foreign Minister Taro Aso and Defense Agency chief Fukushiro Nukaga have been visiting communities with military bases to gain their approval of an interim report on the realignment of U.S. forces in Japan, but strong local opposition persists.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 1, 2005

Condo repairs to cost at least 14 billion yen

The cost of repairing hotels, condominium complexes and other structures built with false quake-resistance data has so far been tallied at over 14 billion yen, the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Dec 1, 2005

Romanian EU entry touted as boon for Japan

Romania's envisioned admission to the European Union in 2007 will benefit not only Europe but Japan as well, giving Japanese goods access to the Southeastern European market, according to Romanian Foreign Minister Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu.
JAPAN
Dec 1, 2005

Former Kanebo execs plead guilty

A former president and vice president of Kanebo Ltd. both pleaded guilty Wednesday at the Tokyo District Court to falsifying financial statements.
JAPAN
Dec 1, 2005

3.25 billion yen awarded in Yokota base noise suit

The Tokyo High Court ordered the government Wednesday to pay a record 3.25 billion yen in noise pollution damages to an estimated 6,000 residents living near the U.S. Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo.
JAPAN
Dec 1, 2005

One-year extension seen for SDF mission in Iraq

The government plans to extend the reconstruction mission of Self-Defense Forces troops in Iraq for another year, sources said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Dec 1, 2005

Condemned cultist denies guilt in appeal

The counsel for senior Aum Shinrikyo figure Masami Tsuchiya entered a not guilty plea Wednesday on behalf of their client as his Tokyo High Court appeal trial began against his death sentence for 13 cult-perpetrated murders, including those in the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack.
JAPAN
Dec 1, 2005

Treating dementia with music trumpeted

, chairman of the Tokyo Music Volunteer Association, encourages elderly people to sing and clap to the music as part of therapy to combat senile dementia. PHOTO COURTESY OF TATSUHIKO AKABOSHI/KYODO
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / NEW ART SEEN
Dec 1, 2005

Getting a little help from friends

Federico Herrero made a splash with his wall paintings of weirdly morphed animals at the 2001 Venice Biennale and, at age 22, became the youngest-ever winner of the prestigious art fair's Golden Lion Award. In the wake of that success, the Costa Rican-born painter garnered international representation...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Dec 1, 2005

The reign of Vivienne

From being prosecuted under Britain's obscenity laws for her risque punk fashions to twirling pantyless after receiving an honor from the Queen whose image she once defaced with safety pins, Vivienne Westwood has always had a habit of causing controversy.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 1, 2005

Rakuten and TBS bury hatchet, agree to start tieup talks

After intense 11th-hour negotiations, Rakuten Inc. and Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc. agreed Wednesday to launch talks on potential business tieups after the Internet firm withdrew its proposal to merge with the private broadcaster.
BUSINESS
Dec 1, 2005

Salaried workers' pay still rising

Salaried workers' standard monthly pay averaged 254,066 yen in October, up 0.5 percent from a year earlier for the seventh straight monthly rise, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said Wednesday.
Will Bangladesh go the way of Pakistan?
Gen. Waker-uz-Zaman, Bangladesh's army chief, arrives at Dhaka International Airport to receive Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus on Aug. 8 to lead the country's interim government.
Slow-moving storm Shanshan downgraded to tropical depression
Elevated water levels on the Tama River in Kawasaki on Friday after Shanshan dumped torrential rain on wide areas of Japan.
Apparent suicide jumper falls onto pedestrian in Yokohama, killing both
Two women died near Yokohama Station on Saturday after one of them apparently fell from a building and landed on the other, who was walking below.
First lesson of Japan’s akiya gold rush: No such thing as a free house.
An abandoned house in Urayama, Saitama Prefecture. Buying an <i>akiya</i>, which means empty house in Japanese, can be a rewarding experience that yields a unique space and a livable home, competitively priced. Or it could turn out to be a money pit.
Yen calling the shots as BOJ mulls rate increase
Concern about the yen strengthening might limit the Bank of Japan's room for maneuver.
Clocking off: Japan’s hotter summers put limit on outdoor work
A construction worker in Tokyo's Akasaka district on Aug. 21. With 886 cases, 54 of them fatal, during the period from 2019 to 2023, the construction industry leads Japan’s tally for occupational heatstroke.
Japan seeks another record-breaking defense budget for fiscal 2025
Members of the Ground Self-Defense Force hold a live-fire exercise at the GSDF's training grounds in the East Fuji Maneuver Area in Gotemba, Shizuoka Prefecture, in May. Japan's Defense Ministry is seeking another record-breaking budget for fiscal 2025.
Can Japan handle a heat wave and natural disaster at the same time?
A member of the Self-Defense Forces wipes away sweat as he conducts a search and rescue operation at a landslide site caused by heavy rain in Kumano, Hiroshima Prefecture, on July 11, 2018.
Did you feel that? It may be time to refresh your disaster kits — and vocabulary.
A map of western Japan shows the Nankai Trough and, to its north, the hypocentral region where the energy for an earthquake is thought to be building.
This English schoolboy has big dreams of becoming yokozuna — and more
Nicholas Tarasenko trains at Minato stable in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, on Tuesday. Tarasenko’s potential in sumo was made obvious when he won U18 gold in the 90-kg weight class at the 2023 Baruto Cup in Estonia despite being four years under the age limit and having only had a total of one hour of sumo training before the meet.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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A store clerk tries to cool things down in front of their shop by spraying a hose.
Is extreme weather changing the way Japan shops?
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